Both Lauren Winans and Ed Keenan presented at the recent Workshop on Semantic Variation at the University of Chicago. Ed Keenan was an invited speaker along with department alumnus, Ivano Caponigro (Ph.D. 03). Lauren Winans: Disjunction in Egyptian Arabic Ed Keenan: Function-Interpretation Principle

The annual Boston University Conference of Language Development took place recently (Nov 1 – 3). UCLA was well represented by a number of talks and posters: 1) Jamie White (Ph.D. 13, now at University of Ottawa): Role of perceptual similarity in the acquisition of phonological alternations: A biased Maximum Entropy learning model 2) Megha Sundara,…

The once-every-five years International Congress of Linguists is currently taking place in Geneva. A number of UCLA linguists (faculty, graduate students and alumni) will be presenting their work. Byron Ahn: “Universality and Subject-Oriented Reflexivity” Isabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012): “A Unified Analysis of Iddi Terms (terms expressing identity and difference) based on French data (même ‘same’,…

A number of UCLA linguists presented posters at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Montreal this past week. Adam Chong. Towards a model of Singaporean English intonational phonology. Marc Garellek, Robin Samlan, Jody Kreiman, and Bruce Gerratt (Dept. of Head and Neck Surgery). Perceptual sensitivity to a model of the source…

Jessica Rett and Nina Hyams are heading to Reykjavík, Iceland, to give a talk at the Workshop on Syntactic Issues in Language Acquisition at the 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, to be held May 13-15. Their talk is entitled: Copy raising and evidentiality: A view from child language

Two UCLA linguists will be presenting at the upcoming meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (April 18-20). Dustin Bowers: Phonological Restructuring in Odawa Thomas Graf: The Syntactic Algebra of Adjuncts